- Howell Peregrine
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name = D. Howell Peregrine
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birth_date =30 December 1938
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death_date =20 March 2007
death_place =Bristol
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field =Fluid mechanics Coastal engineering
work_institution =University of Bristol
alma_mater =Oxford University Cambridge University
doctoral_advisor = T. Brooke Benjamin FRS
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footnotes =Howell Peregrine (
30 December 1938 –20 March 2007 ) was a Britishapplied mathematician noted for his contributions tofluid mechanics , especially of free surface flows such aswater waves , andcoastal engineering [cite journal| title=Professor D. Howell Peregrine | first=H. K. | last=Moffatt | journal=Journal of Fluid Mechanics | volume=580 | year=2007 | pages=1–2 ] .Howell Peregrine joined the Mathematics Department of
University of Bristol in 1964 following his undergraduate and postgraduate training at Oxford and Cambridge [cite web | title = Professor D H Peregrine | publisher= bris.ac.uk | url = http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2007/5372.html | accessdate = 2008-09-20 ] . He spent his entire career at Bristol.He was an
Associate Editor of theJournal of Fluid Mechanics for more than 25 years.Howell Peregrine died suddenly after a short battle against
cancer . He was then a Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bristol.He was known to be a good
photographer of natural phenomena. Some of the photographs which he took himself appeared in his papers.References
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